Here Are the 73 Reasons Why I Carry a Handgun
I teach high school English, a profession commonly thought to number among the most touchy-feely. I love books. If that weren't bad enough, I’m a professional classically trained singer, a first tenor. Yes, the...
BREAKING: Florida Streets Not Ankle-Deep in Blood After Permitless Carry Becomes Law
By Lee Williams
There have been no Wild West-style shootouts. Floridians are not shooting each other over parking spots as some tediously predicted. No fistfights have escalated into gunfights, and most assuredly, the streets are...
Concealed Carry Holsters to Live By
By Brad Fitzpatrick
In most concealed carry courses holster selection feels like an afterthought. That’s understandable considering the amount of critical information that must be imparted in a short amount of time, but choosing the...
Test Your Legal IQ: A Domestic in the Park
By Travis Birney
QUESTION: Walking through a park, you see a woman screaming at a man. He tries to walk away but she continues to yell at him. Frustrated at her persistence, he turns, slaps...
Miami Herald: We’re Dreading July 1st and Here’s Why You Should, Too
Anyone with good sense in Florida is dreading July 1.
That’s the day when the state starts allowing people over the age of 21 to carry a concealed weapon without a permit and without...
Cook County Prosecutors Drop Charges After 14-Year-Old Uses Mom’s Gun To Shoot Her Attacker
Chicago's mainstream media seemed appalled that a mother would tell her teenage son to get her carry gun out of her car as she was being accosted in a working class neighborhood carry-out restaurant....
CRPA’s CCW Reckoning Program Forces Hostile CA Counties to Issue Carry Permits
By C.D. Michel and Kostas Moros
The landmark Bruen ruling was a huge win for gun owners across the country, but as we’ve seen repeatedly, Supreme Court rulings alone are not self-enforcing. It still takes...
On Situational Awareness and Dangerous Women
Making the decision to carry a concealed weapon is only the first step in a process which includes purchasing a handgun that's appropriate for one’s personality and life, training, regular practice, and adapting one’s...
Personal Defense Tip: Develop Your Own Tactical Checklist
By Sal Navarro
Being “tactical” is a way of life, not an ethereal concept or happenstance occurrence. And just for the record, it has nothing at all to do with wearing the right cargo pants...
Governor Lee Smiles: Naïve Tennessee Students Lobby Against Guns in Schools Ahead of Special...
Last week we noted that following the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Volunteer State Gov. Bill Lee couldn't manage to get his "red flag" introduced in the legislature, let alone get it passed. The...
Personal Defense: Forty Miles of Road Rage Ends in a Dead Aggressor
Police in Minnesota ruled the use of deadly force over the weekend against a road-raging idiot was justified self-defense. For 40 miles, William Haire -- age: more than old enough to know better --...
The New Jersey Machete Attack That Wasn’t Stopped By a Court’s Opinion
The topic of arms, bearable arms, arms that are appropriate for self-defense, etc., is explored here at TTAG on a daily basis. When it comes to self-defense, though, we can't exclude improvised weapons in...